A new Verizon display unit is the subject of the picture you see to the right. Obviously, there is a phone missing to the left of the Motorola DROID X2 and to the right of the Motorola DROID 3. The placeholder shows what apparently will be a unit with a 4.3 inch display (note how it lines up with the DROID X2) and currently is plastered with the phrase "Coming Soon".

Now, what phone do we know that has a 4.3 inch screen, is being manufactured by Motorola for Verizon, and indeed is coming soon. Yeah, it's a tough guess-NOT! It is another sign that the Motorola DROID Bionic is on the way. You guys and gals who have been holding on to your well-earned updates are getting closer to the day when you are holding this eagerly awaited device. We now have seen some accessories listed at Amazon and a display housing for Big Red. The big moment is seemingly at hand.

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I have the Thunderbolt currently but am really contemplating getting this device. I just hope Motorola has kept their dirty blur off it as much as possible. Im definitely partial to sense ui but this Tbolt struggles.

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i want this now, i dont know how people like their original droids still, i am still using the first droid and i think its extra slow and it freezes on me all time, i notice lag almost any switch. i have my last new every two ready to go! just let me buy this!

I've been using the Original Droid for the past 2-3 years and it's a great phone. IPS panel, PowerVR, and CortexA8. Using CM7, SetCPU and while it's not as fast as the newest phones, it holds its own for its age. It's well built and definitely one of the best from Motorola (most of the newer ones are locked down hard). I'm due for an upgrade but I'm waiting for the Galaxy S2 as it has excellent hardware and is very open to mods (supercurio is awesome), so hopefully it will support Verizon's 4G because that would make it the phone to beat.

Gonna be a slight price jump from the Atrix to the Bionic, the cheapskate in me yells....

Too bad about the coverage on T-Mobile. Find it hard to believe that St. Louis doesn't have great coverage on all the networks. I just borrowed a Sprint phone from someone I know, to try out the reception in my area. With my discount, Sprint would have saved us tons of cash. But, wow. Just horrid indoor coverage. In the plant I work in, I could make a call, here the ringing, walk in a circle and drop the signal in mid-step. Really a let down. So I do feel your pain.

The city itself has okay coverage, but my friends (who went on the same plan as me and dictate which carrier we go to) have a second house out at a resort where t-mobile is supposed to have good coverage, but in reality has none at all.

And now I have a chance to pick up the Atrix for 75 bucks. You can't beat that with a stick. :)

my dad and i have the Droid X and 2 right now but our Droid 3 and X2 will be here Tuesday. i'll be using the Droid 3 but my dad is just going to return the X2 and get the Bionic when it comes out which i think will be a worthy upgrade considering it has LTE and a Dual-Core processor so there should be no trade off except for passing up the GSII (Function) for it's smooth operation and the impact it's abilities will have on the battery life which may or may not be an issue with this phone, it's probably the main concern Moto had with the phone so it'll be interesting to see what they've done to try to fix it.

Here's my issue with Motorola phones. It's not Blur or anything like that at all actually. It's how narrow and oversized their phones are. You put the Droid X and the Samsung Infuse together and the Infuse is actually shorter and much wider(way better typing, webpage viewing, and overall video watching experience.) And the Infuse has a 4.5 inch display compared to the 4.3 on the Droid X and again...it's shorter. The Droid X has too much wasted space and the screens are always too narrow.

The viewing experience on phones like the Thunderbolt, Infuse, and Droid Charge for example are much better because of the wider screens.

I feared that Motorola would once again drop the ball on their display size with the Bionic. It appears the Bionic will be the Droid X2 with LTE and MAYBE 1GB of RAM. Don't get me wrong, it's not going to be a bad phone. But I will go for the SGS2 because of the better display and faster processor.

However, the aspect ratio on the DROID X makes for better widescreen viewing, and wider phones like the Evo just don't fit as well into my hand. On the other hand, 16:9 phones like the X and Sensation fit comfortably. Ergonomics may be their reasoning here.

yeah, i agree with Sniggly on this one a more extreme comparison would be between a Motorola XOOM or Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 vs. an iPad 2. doing things in different orientations doesn't make for much difference on the 4:3 aspect ratio of the iPad but on a 16:9 ratio it grants you more versatility, for instance when you're watching a movie you get the true widescreen effect in landscape and in portrait you have a taller and narrower screen for when you're trying to find something on a web page or you have a list to look at. i know it's not as extreme with phones but some added advantages to 16:9 on a phone is a wider landscape on-screen keyboard which some people prefer and then like Sniggly says for Ergonomics as well and then of course everything else i mentioned on a smaller scale.

i've waited on the bionic long enough,and still no official word on it's release only speculation,at least the motorola photon has a release date and from what i've heard about this phone it's suppose to have the same features as the bionic anyway..

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